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International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SSCI. Published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
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ISSN 0927-3522Verify ISSN ↗1571-8085Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 161 / 1162 | 86th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 293 / 876 | 66th | Q2 |
| Oceanography | 63 / 154 | 59th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 108 / 249 | 56th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 201 / 432 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.7.
International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law is Q1 in Law (rank 161 of 1162), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 293 of 876) and Q2 in Oceanography (rank 63 of 154), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.870, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 42.
International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law is published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0927-3522 and its online ISSN is 1571-8085.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 1.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #268 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law published 58 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 92 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (18.5%), United Kingdom (15%) and Sweden (7.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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